In writing our feature article “Adding MIDI to Your Shop”, we needed to get up and running with the formidable program Cubase 4, by Steinberg (www.steinberg.net). This program is both a top notch MIDI sequencer and digital recording studio in one. Obviously a lot to learn, and ramping up for this type of complex audio […]

Texturing is a specialty within the niche of 3D work. Along with lighting it is an integral part of scene design and construction, and there are many ways to approach its execution. While this topic is often a chapter or two within a larger book, we decided to look at two books […]

Remember being a kid and having the circus come to town? Well for those in the creative and media communications fields, Adobe’s CS3 Tour aims to give the same type of thrill.
But with all that is truly new, like the iPhone and other products, could new releases of old products really change […]

With so many (too many?) Photoshop books on the market, we thought we would look at two recent offerings from two top publishers. The first is the very successful “How to Cheat in Photoshop” book by Steve Caplins, now in its third printing. The second is “Photoshop for Right Brainers” by Al Ward.
Each book takes […]

Paperback: 864 pages
Publisher: Sybex/Wiley
Released: April 2006
Language: English
ISBN: 078214442X
Size: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.5 inches
Specs: B/W, CD
Author: John Kundert-Gibbs, Dariush Derakhshani, Eric Kunzendorf, Boaz Livny, Mick Larkins
Have you found it yet? Did you know it was missing? What am I talking about? Why, Maya’s printed manual of course!
In the world of software […]

This year for the first time in many years Siggraph was held on the east coast, in Boston. This city is a great place for tech shows as it is a hub of research universities and tech companies, many which grew out of the universities. It is also easily accessible from the New […]

New York–The “Epson Print Academy” rolled into New York City recently like a traveling circus with a team of accomplished experts in tow. While still a rather new offering from Epson, this event has been gaining steam and seems destined to become an annual happening. And much like other troupes that come to town […]

New York April 12—”The Game Initiative” is group that produced professional seminars and is responsible most of the video game oriented conferences across the country. To we east coast folk, these seminars often held in far off places like Texas (where the company and much of the video gaming business is based) and California. […]